Adjectival modification in text meaning representation

  • Authors:
  • Victor Raskin;Sergei Nirenburg

  • Affiliations:
  • New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, N.M.;New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, N.M.

  • Venue:
  • COLING '96 Proceedings of the 16th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 2
  • Year:
  • 1996

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Abstract

This work belongs to a family of research efforts, called microtheories and aimed at describing the static meaning of all lexical categories in several languages in the framework of the MikroKosmos project on computational semantics. The latter also involves other static microtheories describing world knowledge and syntax-semantics mapping as well as dynamic microtheories connected with the actual process of text analysis. This paper describes our approach to detecting and recording adjectival meaning, compares it with the body of knowledge on adjectives in literature and presents a detailed, practically tested methodology for the acquisition of lexical entries for adjectives. The work was based on the set of over 6,000 English and about 1,500 Spanish adjectives obtained from task-oriented corpora.